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Table 3 Ordinal linear regressions (Generalized linear models) for overall perception of life and perception of health as dependent variables and mean anxiety, mean depression and mean PTSD scores, age and gender as predictor variables

From: Quality of life and its association with psychiatric disorders in outpatients with trauma history in a tertiary hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal: a cross-sectional study

 

Overall perception of QOL

Perception of health

OR

95% CI

LB UB

P value

OR

95% CI

LB UB

P value

Variables (N = 99)

 Anxiety

.91

.42 1.98

.81

.58

.41 .83

.003**

 Depression

.32

.12 .84

.02*

.67

.43 1.03

.07

 PTSD

.46

.23 .94

.03*

.89

.65 1.22

.47

 Age

1.00

.96 1.04

.95

.99

.98 1.01

.55

 Gender

1.34

.62 2.92

.46

1.20

.83 1.73

.33

  1. Ordinal regression models in SPSS was used to get the parallel lines which is like linearity assumption for linear models
  2. QOL Quality of life, Q1 Item 1 of QOL, Q2 Item 2 of QOL, OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval, LB lower bound, UB upper bound, N number of participants, PTSD posttraumatic stress disorder
  3. *p < .05. **p < .01